3 Quotes By Anatole Broyard


To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
Anatole Broyard on peace

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
Anatole Broyard on poetry

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
Anatole Broyard on war